In moving my projects over to git, I stumbled across a troublesome issue. In one of my projects existed a folder along side trunk, tags and branches that had stuff I needed to be converted. However I wanted to convert these as individual git repositories. So, after reading “git –help svn clone” and finding nothing …
Postfix with ubuntu 11.10
In addition to my Dovecot issues, postfix as well had failed and I wasn’t able to send emails. However, getting them was more important at that point. After some trials, I found I needed to add this to my main.cf smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth Which has resolved postfix from not working. Hopefully I …
Dovecot with ubuntu 11.10
Just recently updated my vps to ubuntu 11.10, this went mostly smooth. However, I had some issues with dovecot. I could not get it to start. It seems that the configuration guide I followed to setup dovecot broke due to outdated settings. However thanks to a wiki guide from dovecot, I was able to convert …
Nginx with IPv6 and vhosts
Linode.com has recently setup IPv6 natively and is deploying it across their data-centers. This is great as I now have a native IPv6 address for my VPS. I use Nginx as a replacement for Apache and I noticed today that my vhosts where not correctly responding on the IPv6 address. Since I use a wildcard …
Content Security Policy with google ads
Content Security Policy is a relativity new header being promoted. Browsers such as Firefox 4 will make use of this. Considering the benefits it and X-Frame-Options headers offer. It is almost stupid to not look into this. These new headers try to do one thing and that is prevent some of the common security issues …